How to edit the project.config for all projects in Gerrit

2013-04-19

While I was evaluating Gerrit 2.6 I ended up installing the building the latest snapshot version (2.7RC) myself. All was fine until I was about to setup Jenkins to verify my commits. I was surprised to find the label “Verified” missing from the reviews. After some googling I found that in version 2.7 this has been removed and needed to be added manually in the project.config. After searching my drives I could not find this project.config only to realize that this is a file in the meta config. And this below is how you edit it:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
git init
git remote add origin ssh://admin@remote.site.com:29418/All-Projects
git fetch origin refs/meta/config:refs/remotes/origin/meta/config
git checkout meta/config

Now you should have the project.config in you temp folder. Add the label as below:

[label "Verified"]
       function = MaxWithBlock
       value = -1 Fails
       value =  0 No score
       value = +1 Verified

Next you need to commit and push back to Gerrit. Ofcourse make sure you have the appropriate rights.

git commit -a
git push origin meta/config:meta/config